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15th Year for the Giant Dreidel in Basking Ridge
Chabad Jewish Center at Basking Ridge erects annual landmark before Hannukah.
What has become a local landmark—the 18-foot-high replica of a traditional Hanukkah toy, a dreidel, has been reconstructed again at the
The dreidel, believed to be perhaps the largest version anywhere, was constructed 15 years ago by rabbinical students at the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, according to Rabbi Yitzchok Moully, the center's youth and program director.
This year the dreidel was re-constructed and repaired by community members Patrick Golden and Robert Stein. The students from Olam Acadamy at the center helped with painting the giant top.
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The interior of the top was also painted this year. Later this week, "The children of Olam Academy will be painting a mural on the inside to brighten it up," Moully said on Tuesday.
The dreidel, alongside a giant menorah, are visible from King George Road and Valley Road. The Jewish center is at 3048 Valley Road.
